# 2025 MAAC women's basketball tournament

The 2025 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament will be the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference for the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The tournament will be played March 11–15, 2025, at the Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, for the sixth year in a row. The tournament winner will receive the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.

## Seeds

Only the top 10 teams in the conference will participate in the tournament, marking the first time in the history of the conference that not every team will participate in the event. The top six teams will receive byes to the quarterfinals. Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
| Seed | School | Conference | Tiebreaker |
| 1 | Fairfield | 19–1 | |
| 2 | Quinnipiac | 18–2 | |
| 3 | Siena | 14–6 | |
| 4 | Mount St. Mary's | 12–8 | |
| 5 | Marist | 11–9 | |
| 6 | Merrimack | 9–11 | 3–2 vs. Saint Peter's/Manhattan/Canisius 1–0 vs. Saint Peter's |
| 7 | Saint Peter's | 9–11 | 3–2 vs. Merrimack/Manhattan/Canisius 0–1 vs. Merrimack |
| 8 | Manhattan | 9–11 | 2–2 vs. Merrimack/Saint Peter's/Canisius |
| 9 | Canisius | 9–11 | 2–3 vs. Merrimack/Saint Peter's/Manhattan |
| 10 | Iona | 8–12 | |
| DNQ | Rider | 5–15 | 1–0 vs. Sacred Heart |
| DNQ | Sacred Heart | 5–15 | 0–1 vs. Rider |
| DNQ | Niagara | 2–18 | |

## Schedule

| Session | Game | Time* | Matchup | Score | Television |
| First round – Tuesday, March 11 |||||||
| 1 | 1 | 12:00 pm | No. 8 Manhattan vs No. 9 Canisius | 52–42 | ESPN+ |
| 1 | 2 | 2:30 pm | No. 7 Saint Peter's vs No. 10 Iona | 40–42 | ESPN+ |
| Quarterfinals – Wednesday, March 12 |||||||
| 2 | 3 | 12:00 pm | No. 1 Fairfield vs No. 8 Manhattan | 58–51 | ESPN+ |
| 2 | 4 | 2:30 pm | No. 2 Quinnipiac vs No. 10 Iona | 79–51 | ESPN+ |
| Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 13 |||||||
| 3 | 5 | 12:00 pm | No. 4 Mount St. Mary's vs No. 5 Marist | 68–65 | ESPN+ |
| 3 | 6 | 2:30 pm | No. 3 Siena vs No. 6 Merrimack | 72–79 | ESPN+ |
| Semifinals – Friday, March 14 |||||||
| 4 | 7 | 12:00 pm | No. 1 Fairfield vs No. 4 Mount St. Mary's | 49–48 | ESPN+ |
| 4 | 8 | 2:30 pm | No. 2 Quinnipiac vs No. 6 Merrimack | 65–51 | ESPN+ |
| Championship – Saturday, March 15 |||||||
| 5 | 9 | 1:30 pm | No. 1 Fairfield vs No. 2 Quinnipiac | 76–53 | ESPNU |
| *Game times in EDT. Rankings denote tournament seeding. |||||||

## Bracket

| First round March 11, 2025 ESPN+ | First round March 11, 2025 ESPN+ | First round March 11, 2025 ESPN+ | Quarterfinals March 12–13, 2025 ESPN+ | Quarterfinals March 12–13, 2025 ESPN+ | Quarterfinals March 12–13, 2025 ESPN+ | Semifinals March 14, 2025 | Semifinals March 14, 2025 | Semifinals March 14, 2025 | Championship March 15, 2025 | Championship March 15, 2025 | Championship March 15, 2025 |
| | | | 1 | Fairfield | 58 | | | | | | |
| 8 | Manhattan | 52 | 8 | Manhattan | 51 | | | | | | |
| 9 | Canisius | 42 | | | | 1 | Fairfield | 49 | | | |
| | | | | | | 4 | Mount St. Mary's | 48 | | | |
| | | | 4 | Mount St. Mary's | 68 | | | | | | |
| | | | 5 | Marist | 65 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | 1 | Fairfield | 76 |
| | | | | | | | | | 2 | Quinnipiac | 53 |
| | | | 2 | Quinnipiac | 79 | | | | | | |
| 7 | Saint Peter's | 40 | 10 | Iona | 51 | | | | | | |
| 10 | Iona | 42 | | | | 2 | Quinnipiac | 65 | | | |
| | | | | | | 6 | Merrimack | 51 | | | |
| | | | 3 | Siena | 72 | | | | | | |
| | | | 6 | Merrimack | 79 | | | | | | |
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